The universe is home to many fascinating objects. R Aquarii is a binary star system with a red giant and a white dwarf. Omega ...

Astronomers have captured the first-ever close-up image of WOH G64, a colossal red supergiant star located 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Using the Very Large Telescope ...

Thankfully, the nearest candidate is the binary white dwarf IK Pegasi, which sits safely about 150 light-years away. Before ...

A black hole’s violent encounter with two stars has shed light on mysterious cosmic X-ray bursts. Observations from Chandra and Hubble reveal the dynamics of a stellar collision and an expanding ...

During the first half of the fourth observing run (O4a) of the International Gravitational Wave Network, the Zwicky Transient ...

The 'Behemoth Star' WOH G64 is located a staggering 160,000 light-years from Earth in a neighbouring galaxy called the Large ...

Through meticulous calculations of black hole formation, they have traced the origin of the magnetic fields back to the collapsing parent stars of the black holes themselves. Black holes are not born ...

A research based on findings of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory reveales that strange recurring signals from a distant ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron stars and the birth of a black hole. This has, for the ...

Astronomers, using data from NASA’s Swift Observatory, have identified an extraordinary recurring signal from two massive black holes in a galaxy a billion light-years away. Known as AT 2021hdr, this ...

This image from the ALMA telescope shows star system HD101584 and the complex gas clouds surrounding the binary. It is the result of a pair of stars sharing a common outer layer during their last ...

This image from the ALMA telescope shows star system HD101584 and the complex gas clouds surrounding the binary. It is the result of a pair of stars sharing a common outer layer during their last ...